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Tempt   /tɛmpt/   Listen
verb
Tempt  v. t.  (past & past part. tempted; pres. part. tempting)  
1.
To put to trial; to prove; to test; to try. "God did tempt Abraham." "Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God."
2.
To lead, or endeavor to lead, into evil; to entice to what is wrong; to seduce. "Every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
3.
To endeavor to persuade; to induce; to invite; to incite; to provoke; to instigate. "Tempt not the brave and needy to despair." "Nor tempt the wrath of heaven's avenging Sire."
4.
To endeavor to accomplish or reach; to attempt. "Ere leave be given to tempt the nether skies."
Synonyms: To entice; allure; attract; decoy; seduce.





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"Tempt" Quotes from Famous Books



... more misguided set of priorities than one which would tempt others by weakening America, and thereby endanger the ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Richard Nixon • Richard Nixon
... of his dinner" many times to friends and neighbors. This pleasant custom lingered till the present day in New England; I saw last summer, several times, covered treasures of housewifery being carried in petty amounts, literally "a taste," to tempt tired appetites or lonely diners. The gift of a portion of the over-bountiful supply for the supper of a wedding, a reception, etc., went by the expressive name of ...
— Home Life in Colonial Days • Alice Morse Earle
... account for acting in opposition to his instructions, he is pushing us deeper and deeper into the War policy which we wish to escape. Wherefore should three poor Turkish steamers go to the Crimea, but to beard the Russian Fleet and tempt it to come out of Sebastopol, which would thus constitute the much desired contingency for our combined Fleets to attack it, and so engage ...
— The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 • Queen Victoria
... Master-Word, and so made reply; though it had not been they who had made the previous talk, which we had sought to test by the Word. And then they would make contradiction of all that had been spoken so cunningly; so that we knew the Monsters and Forces had sought to tempt some from the safety of the Redoubt. Yet, was this no new thing, as I have made to hint; saving that it grew now to a greater persistence, and there was a loathsome cunning in the using of this new knowledge to the making of wicked and false ...
— The Night Land • William Hope Hodgson
... fared better than did the Clifford household that day. The dishes heaped with strawberries, raspberries, cherries, and white grape-currants that had been gathered with the dew upon them might well tempt the most blase resident of a ...
— Nature's Serial Story • E. P. Roe


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